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Ada Blackjack: Stranded in the Arctic | A Desolate Land | 1

2022/2/22
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一位专注于电动车和能源领域的播客主持人和内容创作者。
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Ada Blackjack: 为了给患病的儿子筹集医药费，Ada Blackjack 毅然前往弗兰格尔岛参与探险，即使这意味着要离开儿子两年。她在探险过程中展现了非凡的韧性和生存能力，克服了严酷的环境和精神打击，最终幸存下来并回到儿子身边。她经历了孤独、疾病、以及探险队员的不友善对待，但她始终坚持自己的承诺，最终完成了目标。 Lorne Knight: 作为探险队的领导者之一，Lorne Knight展现出强硬和不近人情的性格。他对于Ada Blackjack 的工作要求严格，甚至采取了不人道的惩罚措施。他的决策有时显得草率，例如在西伯利亚购买乌米亚克时犹豫不决，以及选择多里船代替乌米亚克等，这些都给探险队带来了额外的困难。 Frederick Maurer, Milton Gale, Alan Crawford: 这三位探险队员在探险过程中展现出不同的性格和行为。Maurer 因为资金问题向兄弟借钱，体现了探险队在资金上的压力。Crawford 竖起了英国国旗，宣称弗兰格尔岛为英国领土，体现了探险队的目标之一。Gale 与Ada Blackjack 发展了友谊，体现了人性的温暖。 Vilhelmer Stefansson: 作为探险队的组织者和资助者，Stefansson 的决策和指导对探险队的成败起到了关键作用。他强调了雇佣因纽特家庭的重要性，并为探险队提供了生存技能培训。但他对资金的管理似乎存在问题，导致探险队在物资准备方面遇到困难。 Narrator: 叙述者客观地讲述了Ada Blackjack 的故事，展现了她在极端环境下的生存历程，以及探险队成员之间的矛盾和冲突。叙述者也穿插了对探险队背景、历史和地理环境的介绍，使故事更加完整和生动。

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Ada Blackjack, an Inuit woman, makes a difficult choice to join an Arctic expedition to earn money for her son's medical treatment, leaving him in a children's home.

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In 1921, an expedition set out from Alaska for a remote island high in the Arctic Circle. With them was a 23-year-old Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had been hired by four white explorers to cook and sew. For Blackjack, it was her last chance to earn enough money to pay for her young son’s medical treatment. But she had never spent any time in the wilderness, and the harsh Arctic surroundings would push her to her limits.

This is the story of how Ada Blackjack became the sole survivor of the Wrangel Island expedition.

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